Unit 6 - Conflict (the Civil War)

Union states

the northern states during the war

Border states

the states during the war that stayed loyal to the north.

Confederate states

the southern states during the war

The Ordinance of Secession

signed first by SC along with other states because they were upset that Abraham Lincoln became president. They believed that he was going to end slavery.

Battle of Fort Sumter

On April 12, 1861 the confederates shot first because Lincoln was sending in supplies to the Norths fort in SC.

North’s advantages

population, factories, railroad tracks, textiles produced, and production of guns

South’s advantages

Military leadership and experienced soldiers

Union strategy

anaconda plan (blockade, capture Mississippi, capture Richmond (never happened))

Confederacy strategy

sit back and play defense (break naval port, fight off union invasions, line up foreign allies)

Port Royal

crucial win for the Union because they were able to now create a blockade around the south.

Robert Smalls

A slave, but his owner taught him hoe to sail so in the middle of the night he stole his owners boat an his clothes and went to the border where the north was blockading the south and he escaped and told the north important information about the south.

Siege of Vicksburg

The Union took over the Mississippi river which split the south into two and cut off supplies.

Battle of Gettysburg

The turning part of the war, and the Union had a big win because this was basically the last war.

Fort Wagner

The 54th Massachusetts were in this war and what made it different was that everyone was African American.

Emancipation Proclamation

Abraham Lincoln issued it to say that African Americans could now be in the war but this didn’t apply to everyone because the south didn’t want to use it because they believed that they weren't under the leadership of Lincoln anymore and the Lincoln wanted the border states to not have to follow because he was worried that if they did they would side with the south.

The Hunley

A confederacy submarine that hid a Union ship but then on it’s way back it sunk itself.

Runners

fast and quick movements to transmit usually cargo.

Sherman’s March

led by William T. Sherman and he started in Chattanooga, TN and used the Total War strategy ( to destroy everything in your way and make the other side feel the pain of war). It ended in Raleigh, NC

Appomattox Courthouse

General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses G. Grant which ended the war.

General Robert E. Lee

Confederacy

General Ulysses G. Grant

Union